400 Lxxvin, coMro.siT.rc. (J D. Hooker.) [Hiemcitun. 



stout or slender, paniculately or corymbosely branched. Heads i-| in. diam. Action cs 

 in., black; pappus as long. 



2. XX. crocatum, Fries. ; glabrous or hirsute, stem leafy simple or 

 branched above, radical leaves 0, cauline sessile elliptic linear-oblong or lanceo- 

 late glaucous beneath base rounded truncate or cordate entire or toothed, heads 

 few or many and erect, peduncles downy glabrous or hirsute, invol. bracts 

 glabrous appressed obtuse, outer often slender and recurved. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir to Dalhousie, alt. 6-8000 ft., Thomson, Clarke 

 WESTERN TIBET, Falconer, Hcyctc. DISTKIB. Middle and N. Europe. 



Stem 1-2 ft., strict. Leaves 1-5 in., very variable in shape. Heads f in. diam. 

 Achcnes % in., cylindric, faintly ribbed, black, shining. 



3. XX. prenanthoides, Villars^ Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 878 ; glabrous or 

 hirsute, glandular above, stem leafy with spreading "branches, radical leaves 0, 

 cauline oblong or ovate or linear-oblong entire or denticulate glaucous beneath, 

 uppermost cordate, heads in branched leafy panicled corymbs floccose and 

 with gland-tipped hairs, invol. bracts pubescent. Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. xix. t. 

 1512. 



NORTHERN KASHMIR, alt. 8-10,000 ft, Clarke. DISTRIB. N. Asia, the Caucasus, 

 and N. and Mid. Europe. 



Stolons 0. Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 1-3 in., rather membranous, ciliate. Heads 1 in. 

 diam. Achencs nearly in., strongly ribbod, red-brown. 



4. IX. umbellatum, Linn. : Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 877 ; glabrous or hir- 

 sute below, eglandular, stem leafy, radical leaves 0, cauline sessile linear 

 or linear-oblong narrowed at the base toothed, heads glabrous or with the brac- 

 teolate peduncles stellately downy, invol. bracts many outer small recurved. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 257, e.ce/. syn. and var. y; Reickb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1531. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 5-10,000 ft. DISTRIB. X. 

 Asia to Japan, N. Persia, the Caucasus, N. and Mid. Europe, N. America. 



Stolons 0. Stem 1-2 ft., wiry. Leaves 1-3 in., usually narrow and contracted at 

 the base. Achenes as in H. crocat/cm, from which it appears to me very difficult to 

 distinguish this in the Himalaya. 



VAR. lanccolata ; smaller, more slender, heads 1-3. H. lanceolatum, Eoyle mss. 

 Kashmir, alt. 7-8000 ft., Clarke. Baker regards this as a starved state of H. umbcl- 

 fatitm ; it is very like H. lanccolatum of Yillars. 



5. XX. virosum, Pall. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 856 ; glabrous or very sparsely 

 hirsute, glaucous, stem stout leafy, leaves sessile short coriaceous oblong-ovate 

 base cordate toothed glaucous beneath, heads numerous in short terminal brac- 

 teate umbellate corymbs, peduncles short stout bracteolate, invol. bracts glabrous 

 outermost small spreading. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xix. t. 1536. H, umbella- 

 tum, var. y rigidum, Clarke Comp. Ind. 258. II. corymbosum, Pers. Synops. 

 ii. 374. 



KASHMIR, Falconer; Srinuggur, alt. 7-fOOO ft., Clarke. DISTRIB. N. Asia from 

 Dahuria westwards to Mid. Europe, 



Stolons 0. Stem very stout, stiff. Leaves 1-3 in., crowded, gradually diminishing 

 upwards, glabrous above, sparsely ciliate on the margins and beneath. Corymbs with 

 ascending short stiff branches. Heads 5 in. diam. Achencs ~ in., red-brown. 



Ill* HITFOCIXJEXIXS, Linn. 



Perennial, rarely annual, scapigerous herbs. Leaves rosulate, entire toothed 

 or pinnatifid. Heads long-peduncled, solitary, yellow, homogamous ; 11. all 

 ligulate. Involucre cylindric-oblong or carnpanulate ; bracts oo -seriate, ap- 



